Event

Result Announcement of ‘Game Jam: Art, Politics, and Digital Games’ Close

Period/ 2017.01.20(Fri) ~ 2017.01.22(Sun)

The Nam June Paik Art Center and the Goethe-Institut Seoul has presented Game Jam: Art, Politics and Digital Games from January 20 to 22. Game developers and artists were invited to participate in a 48-hour game jam and designed various games, which are in the field of art, politics and digital games.

Nam June Paik’s video work Global Groove (1973) opened new horizons in the art world: reflecting on television, he used the new medium of video and created a work using pop music and people dancing – a kind of early music video. This was in the year 1973; the digital age was still very young, there were no computers or video games yet. But there was already art’s fascination with the digital world, and vice versa. Nowadays the digital world has become part of our everyday life and a political force in itself.